About  "The  Hights" 

at 
Oakland,  California 

with 
Juanita  Miller 
& 


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FROM    THE    PRESS   OF 

Chas.    P.    MacI.afferty 

OAKLAND       CAL. 

copyrighted    by 

,11    ANITA       MILLER 

1917 


About  "The  Hights" 

with 

Juanita  Miller 


Illustrated  By 
The  Author 


NOTES 


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To  dedicate  all  suffering  with  joy: 
To  just  be  worthy  him. 

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NOTES 


Cross  of  Trees. 
Planted  by  Joaquin  Miller. 


May  we  remember  to  bear  our  cross  what- 
ever it  be 
Bide  patiently;  both  gain  and  loss  they  bal- 
ance eventually; 
They  are  part  of  the  perfect  plan 
And  faith  in  God's  greatest  gift  to  man. 

Until  we  have  proven  our  perfect  belief 
That  God  is  good,  whatever  He  give; 

Until  we  have  learned  to  be   grateful   for 
grief 
We  have  not  learned  to  live; 


For  the  more  we  suffer  and  survive 
The  greater  we  are  if  still  alive. 
As  a  bird  is  rocked  in  its  tree-top  nest, 
As  a  babe  is  safe  on  its  mother's  breast, 
In  the  arms  of  The  Infinite  rock  and  rest. 
Knowing  that  what  God  gives  is  best. 


NOTES 


Joaquin    Miller's  "Abbey.' 


Crescent,  cross  and  rays  of  the  sun- 
All  symbols  of  the  eternal  One. 


NOTES 


Occupied  by  the  Poet's  Mother. 


Where  Margaret  Miller  lived  for  many 

years, 
In  tranquil  righteousness  devoid  of  tears. 


NOTES 


A 


A  Beauty  Bit. 


Bending  blue  of  benediction; 

Fantasy  of  leaf  and  fern. 
Mid  sun-mist  incense  on  earth's  altar 

The  candles  blossom,  blaze  and  burn. 


NOTES 


Juanita's  Wigwam. 


Spirit  by  flesh  no  longer  bound 
Roams  the  "Happy  Hunting  Ground. 


NOTES 


Sanctuary  to  Memory.  Erected  by  Juanita  Miller. 


Shrine  for  the  past,  for  the  present,  for  that 

which  is  to  be, 
Surely  the  present  and  future  are  children 

of  memory. 


NOTES 


No  thing  has  ever  happened  to  me 
But  what  the  future  has  made  me  see 
How  good  of  God  to  chasten  me. 
Now  when  there  is  a  troubled  sea 
Into  my  shell — my  Sanctuary 
I  slip,  where  myself  and  I  are  free, 
With  faith,  with  truth,  with  memory; 
In  silence  and  serenity. 


NOTES 


The  Guest  Cottage. 


Where  artists  followed  their  favorite  muse 
And  came  and  went  as  fate  might  choose. 


NOTES 


Funeral   Pyre.    Erected   by   Joaquin   Miller. 


That  his  ashes  might  ascend  up  to  the  sun 

in  smoke  and  fire — 
Mingling  with  the  elements,  was  his  desire. 


NOTES 


When  we  saw  his  ashes  float  on  flame  into 
the  air, 

Somehow  we  heard  within  our  conscious- 
ness in  answer  to  the  passion  of  our 
prayer: 

Peace,  peace,  grieve  not,  for  I  am  here  and 
there, — 

Boundless  beauty  everywhere  part  of  the 
most  perfect  plan 

Wherever  truth  shall  enter  man; 

Light  and  love  and  poetry. 

Peace  and  plenty,  ecstacy 

Vast,  unlimited  and  free. 

I  am  what  I  wish  to  be; 

I  live  for  all  eternity 

In  spirit  and  in  memory. 


NOTES 


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Pyramid  to  the  First  Law  Giver,  Moses. 
Erected  by  Joaquin  Miller. 


As  we  follow  His  commandments  so  shall 

our  peace  be 
And  in  wise  obedience  find  true  liberty. 


NOTES 


' 


Tower   to   Robert    Browning. 
Erected  by  Joaquin  Miller. 


Sensitive  "Poet  of  the  Soul" 
Leading  us  ever  to  a  sacred  goal 
Where  dwell  the  spirit  people  of  the  brain 
And    where   "Childe    Roland    to   the    dark 
tower  came." 


NOTES 


rj\     :% 


Erected  to  John  C.  Fremont  by  Joaquin  Miller. 


From    where   the    pathfinder   saw   the    sun 
sinking  in  golden  splendor  at  the  strait 
And  so  called  it  "The  Golden  Gate." 


Warm,  red  sun  kissed  the  "Gate"  good 
night 

Mid  purple  pomp  and  cloth  of  gold 
Great  gorgeous  colors  dropped  from  sight, 

Deep  down  into  my  heart  they  rolled. 


Shy  silver  stars  came  out  and  sang 
Each  one  in  perfect  harmony, 

Until  the  air  with  music  rang 

And  all  my  soul  went  calling  thee. 


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